iridium_core

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by iridium_core 6y ago
Why should poor people without jobs live in New York, one of the most expensive cities? Wouldn't it be cheaper and more effective to pay them to leave, and give them bus tickets to do so?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
And would those sites be conservative media, who also advocate breaking up big tech?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Its sustainable politically if you call anyone who opposes the scheme racist - only a single country in the top 10 migrant contributors to Canada is of European heritage: https://www.cicnews.com/2020/02/a-quarter-o
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Just legalise all drugs and let the free market decide. We could create innovative new substances which are safer and less socially damaging, compared to the plants and fermented liquids we happen to have stumbled upon millenia ago.
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by iridium_core 6y ago
The tweet might be disagreeable, but it is still an important statement from a foreign Government. Twitter has no right to be 'Ministry of Information'.
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Influenza does the same: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/can-the-flu-and-other... These unprecedented restrictions on human freedom (Lockdown) are probably also a factor in pyschosis - limiting people from regul
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by iridium_core 6y ago
So incessant, and seemingly ineffective, lockdowns have succeeded - in selecting for a variant of COVID which is resistant to lockdown? What biological or physical mechanism could allow it to spread more than the original?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Their production source code has the salt for the encryption algorithm hard coded as the (presumably H1B worker's) name "Amalesh"
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by iridium_core 6y ago
We need Russians - or people outside of the progressive bubble of Europe and North America - to create an alternate internet, please. Starting with browser, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook replacement. Then onto OS - mobile and desktop.
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Is there any evidence that this new 'variant' has any impact to infectiousness or death? Or is it simply genetic drift?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
And what % of economic, scientific, and cultural output is that 10% responsible for?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Look at the data directly: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country Difficult to see much excess death in the UK in the past few months beyond levels seen in the 2018 and 2017 flu seasons. New lockdowns a
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Australia also forecasts that it will increase its Federal debt by AUD$500 billion due to the pandemic - AUD$20,000 per person. Meanwhile aged care deaths in the most heavily affected state, Victoria, are actually down 1,000 YoY. Its almo
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Overflow hospitals in the UK have never been used: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-patients-england-ni... The UK Government is arresting people who film empty hospitals: https://www.thesun.co.u
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by iridium_core 6y ago
If we linearly extrapolate the December 18 data to December 31st, we get 91773 * (366/353) = 95,152. Which would indeed be the highest level this decade, but still only 3.2% higher than 2018. Sweden's 2019 deaths were also the low
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by iridium_core 6y ago
As of December 18th, 2020 deaths in Sweden are only the 3rd highest for the past decade: https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-... So its unlikely that COVID has lead to much excess death out
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Overdose deaths are up 40%, to 81,000 in 2020: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-death... Suicides and homicides also up. Given that these deaths will occur for people with a typical age
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by iridium_core 6y ago
This is why electric cars needs smart charging - plug it in when you get home, and expect for it to be charged by the time you need to go to work - but the actual charging hours should be linked to the grid in order to manage overall demand
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Singapore also has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, at only 1.16 children per woman. Living in a controlled and apartment-dominated country seems to crush the desire and ability to have many children.
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Peak deaths in Sweden from COVID this year are about the same as from Swine Flu in 2009: https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-... Also the population would have been younger, with
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Governments are not ready to allow the economy and population to return to 'normal'. They want to finish their bailouts/pork barreling, and to continue the destruction of the economy and society so that it can be fully recrea
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Immigration or population replacement?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
And the nations which are overtaking us - Taiwan, Korea, Japan, China - are the complete opposite of diverse. Perhaps diversity is not our strength?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
We need automated and mainstream Vitamin and Mineral testing - without needing to go through the traditional healthcare system.
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Still a lot of countries which are not blue: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Abortion... Which are also countries where overpopulation and destitution are most prevalent. Improving ac
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by iridium_core 6y ago
Should I get vaccinated if I have already been infected with COVID?
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by iridium_core 6y ago
There are missing women even in Australia and Canada - son preference is cultural. https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/the-missing-girls-never-bo... "mothers within some key migrant communities are recording sons at
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by iridium_core 6y ago
People have been forced to endure lockdown and masks, but they have a choice about vaccines. We should just vaccinate the elderly and anyone else who wants it and get back to 100% normal life - ditch the mask rules and social distancing.
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by iridium_core 6y ago
How much of this is due to over-population? If the population of Bangladesh was 80 million instead of 160 million - giving each person access to theoretically double the amount of resources and land - would the net improvement be greater th
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by iridium_core 6y ago
If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use

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